Historical Events In October - 15
Saturday, 07 September 2024
1923 NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2 on October - 15.
1923 On October - 15 italo Calvino, Cuba, author (Winter's Night a Traveler)
1924 On October - 15 lee Iacocca, Chrysler magnate born
1924 Pres Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument on this day in history.
1924 Colin Romoff, NYC, orch leader (Andy Williams Show) on October - 15.
1925 On this day in history pitts Pirates beat Wash Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series
1925 On October - 15 mickey Baker, rocker
1926 Austria govt of Seipel, forms on October - 15.
1926 Evan Hunter, [Ed McBain], American writer (Blackboard Jungle) on this day in history.
1928 German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ on October - 15.
1932 Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight on October - 15.
1933 On October - 15 philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0
1934 Raymond Poincaré, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74 on October - 15.
1935 On October - 15 nHL's St Louis Eagles fold
1937 Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published on October - 15.
1937 On this day in history james Marcus, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail) dies at 70
1938 Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premieres in NYC on October - 15.
1939 LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC on this day in history.
1940 On this day in history -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed
1941 On this day in history jews caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death
1941 On this day in history 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe
1942 German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die on this day in history.
1942 On October - 15 dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed
1944 The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary on October - 15.
1944 On October - 15 philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau
1945 On October - 15 french statesman Pierre Laval is executed for betraying his country to Nazis in World War Two.
1945 On October - 15 pierre Laval former premier of Vichy France, executed
1945 On this day in history baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest)
1945 Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62 on this day in history.
1946 On this day in history hermann Goering, founder of the Gestapo and chief of the German air force, committed suicide by poison
1946 Smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140) on October - 15.
1946 On October - 15 hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison
1948 On this day in history first women officers on active duty sworn in as commissioned officers in regular Navy under Women's Service Integration Act of June 1948 by Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan CAPT Joy B. Hancock, USN; LCDR Winifred R. Quick, USN; LCDR Anne King, USN; LCDR Frances L. Willoughby, MC, USN; LT Ellen Ford, SC, USN; LT Doris Cranmore, MSC, USN; LTJG Doris A. Defenderfer, USN; and LTJG Betty Rae Tennant, USN.
1948 China's Red army occupies Chinchov on October - 15.
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